Ports & Harbours

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

More than £300 million (€355 million) has been pledged to transform Belfast Harbour, including turning it into an offshore wind hub.

21st January 2025

Belfast Harbour sets out €350m+ five-year plan

21st January 2025

VESSELS

VESSELS

Ports of Jersey has added a tug with an intriguing history to its fleet, having operated on the other side of the world thousands of miles from its new home.

16th January 2025

Globetrotting Damen tug moves to Jersey

16th January 2025

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Ports are struggling with a raft of rules that tell them to decarbonise, and researchers are burning their night candles working out how to reduce emissions for the vessels that use them…

15th January 2025

Challenges of ports decarbonisation: An academic overview

15th January 2025

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

Ports of Jersey has secured approval for a sustainable port construction project at St Helier Harbour, aiming to rejuvenate the waterfront area.

15th January 2025

Ports of Jersey greenlights harbour redevelopment

15th January 2025

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

Solent Freeport will use its slice of a £25 million UK government funding cake to support six projects in the southern English region.

6th January 2025

Solent Freeport funds six port projects

6th January 2025

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Norwegian energy giant Equinor has secured $3 billion financing for the next stage of its Empire Wind project around 30 miles southeast of Long Island, New York.

6th January 2025

Equinor secures $3 billion for NY wind farm

6th January 2025

INDUSTRY NEWS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Norwegian shorepower developer Zinus has been handed NOK50 million (€4.2 million) to speed up growth and innovation, CEO Endre Eidsvik says.

18th December 2024

Joint investment made in Norwegian shorepower firm

18th December 2024

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

The UK’s third largest port operator, Forth Ports, has put £50 million (€60.6 million) into its Port of Leith to build the port infrastructure essential for installing the 1.1GW Inch cape offshore…

12th December 2024

Forth Ports spends £50m after ‘game changer’ contract

12th December 2024

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

MARINE CONSTRUCTION

RWE and TotalEnergies have chosen the port of Eemshaven in the northern Dutch province of Groningen as the hub for turbine assembly and construction work for their joint offshore wind project, OranjeWind.

12th December 2024

Eemshaven named as OranjeWind base port

12th December 2024

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT

Tugdock and Sarens have successfully secured funding from The Crown Estate’s Supply Chain Accelerator to develop a heavy lift Operations and Maintenance (O&M) hub at ABP’s Port Talbot, Wales.

11th December 2024

Crown Estate backing for floating offshore wind O&M hub

11th December 2024